In 1979, a producer from Córdoba planted 7,000 trees for his wife and created a 1 km guitar visible from space
The work is made up of cypresses and eucalyptus trees, is located near General Levalle and took several decades to reach its final appearance. Pedro Martín Ureta, an agricultural producer from Córdoba, began an ambitious and emotional project in 1979: planting thousands of trees to form a giant guitar in memory of Graciela Yraizoz, his wife, who had died two years earlier.
The woman dreamed of creating a similar design on the family farm, but she did not achieve it during her lifetime. For this reason, Ureta decided to fulfill that wish after his death and had the help of his four children to carry out the project. How he built a guitar with more than 7,000 treesTo make the guitar, the producer used a rural establishment located near General Levalle, in the south of the province of Córdoba. Although at first he thought of hiring a landscaper, since he did not find one, he decided to design the layout and carry out the planting on his own. The producer began to plant trees to fulfill one of his deceased wifes dreams. (Illustrative image generated with AI). To establish the location of each tree, he made different calculations and used his children as reference points. Thus, he managed to mark the lines that would later form the body, the soundhole, the neck and the strings of the guitar. In any case, the first attempts did not go as expected. Because different animals and pests damaged the newly planted specimens, the family had to replace them and place protections around each tree. As the years went by, the trees began to grow and allowed the drawing to be clearly distinguished. In total, the guitar is made up of more than 7,000 specimens and has an extension of approximately one kilometer over the Cordoba plain. What trees make up the giant guitar To ensure that the different parts of the instrument could be distinguished from the air, Ureta combined two species. The cypresses, which have a dark green hue, were used to mark the contour, the mouth, the neck and other details. On the other hand, the strings were made with eucalyptus, whose bluish tone generates a contrast visible from above. This difference between the trees allows each element of the instrument to be easily recognized. Due to its enormous dimensions, the guitar can only be fully appreciated from an airplane or through satellite images. In 2007, the ASTER instrument on the Terra satellite took a false color image that was later published by NASA. To make the details noticeable, it used cypress trees, with a greener tone, and eucalyptus trees, with a more bluish color. (Illustrative image generated with AI). Despite having worked for decades on the project, Ureta never contemplated his work from the air, as he was afraid of flying. For this reason, he was only able to observe it through different photographs, while he continued taking care of the maintenance of that tribute.
